Goran Lovre (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Горан Ловре; born 23 March 1982) is a Serbian former professional
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
After playing five seasons for
Anderlecht, Lovre signed a two-year deal with
Groningen in the 2006 summer transfer window, with a possibility of a two-year extension. He spent four years in the Netherlands, making near 130
Eredivisie
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appearances and scoring 23 goals.
On 28 May 2010, Lovre signed a two-year deal with the English
Championship
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side
Barnsley. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3–1 win over
Ipswich Town
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, where he was influential in the middle of the park, getting an assist. On 7 December 2011, his contract with Barnsley was terminated by mutual consent after featuring very little under new manager
Keith Hill.
In June 2012, Serbian press reported that he might sign a contract with
Partizan Partizan may refer to:
Sport
* JSD Partizan, a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia, which includes the following clubs:
**AK Partizan, athletics
** Biciklistički Klub Partizan, cycling
** Džudo Klub Partizan, judo
**FK Partizan, association fo ...
, the club where he started playing football. On 9 June 2012, Lovre signed a two-year contract with the
Serbian SuperLiga
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champions.
In July 2013 some rumors in Iran had it that he was about to sign a contract with
Esteghlal, having lost its pivotal midfielder
Mojtaba Jabbari
Mojtaba Jabbari ( fa, مجتبی جباری, ; born June 16, 1983 in Robat Karim) is a retired Iranian football player who played mostly for Esteghlal and the Iranian national team as an attacking midfielder.
Club career
Early years
Due to h ...
a few days back, the management of the Iranian club was under tremendous pressure to hire a competent replacement. Lovre also was in trial with Esteghlal in January 2013 but he was not confirmed by the club head coach
Amir Ghalenoei
Ardeshir "Amir" Ghalenoei ( fa, , born 21 November 1963 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian football coach and former player who currently manages Gol Gohar Sirjan. He has been the most successful coach in the Iran Pro League and managed several clu ...
. Finally, he joined to the team on 21 July 2013 with signing a one-year contract.
In February 2014, he joined the German fourth division club
SSV Ulm 1846
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The club's great ...
.
International career
Lovre won a silver medal with the
Serbia and Montenegro U-21 team at the
UEFA European Championship
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in
2004. In the same year, he was also a part of the
Serbia and Montenegro U-23 team that participated at the
Summer Olympics, when they exited in the group stage.
Career statistics
References
External links
Goran Lovreat vi.nl
Goran Lovreat fcgstats.nl
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1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Zagreb
Serbs of Croatia
Serbian footballers
Association football midfielders
Serbia and Montenegro under-21 international footballers
Olympic footballers of Serbia and Montenegro
Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Serbian SuperLiga players
Belgian Pro League players
Eredivisie players
English Football League players
FK Partizan players
R.S.C. Anderlecht players
FC Groningen players
Barnsley F.C. players
Esteghlal F.C. players
Serbian expatriate footballers
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate footballers in England
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Iran
Expatriate footballers in Iran